The CRM Nirenberg Lectures in Geometric Analysis have taken place every year since 2014. The series is named in honour of Louis Nirenberg, one of the most prominent geometric analysts of our time. The 2018 lectures will be delivered by Professor Eugenia Malinnikova from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Malinnikova’s contributions include a groundbreaking joint work with A. Logunov on the nodal geometry of Laplace eigenfunctions, that has led to a proof of two major conjectures in the field due to Shing-Tung Yau and Nikolai Nadirashvili. The research achievements of Eugenia Malinnikova have been recognized by the 2017 Clay Research Award and an invitation to speak at the 2018 ICM in Rio de Janeiro.

Join Simon Singh, one of the world’s most popular science and maths writers on a whistle-stop tour through the bestselling books that he has written over the last two decades. Fermat’s Last Theorem looks at one of the biggest mathematical puzzles of the millennium; The Code Book shares the secrets of cryptology; and Simon’s latest book, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, enters the world of the world’s most popular TV show. Simon will also discuss his other books, Big Bang, which explores the history of cosmology, and “Trick or Treatment?”, which asks some hard questions about alternative medicine.